What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Books named after Morrissey lyrics

October 25, 2013

This is “What’s Making Me Happy This Week,” a weekly feature inspired by the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. It’s pretty self-explanatory.

What’s Making Me Happy This Week is a post on the A.V. Club website today listing and describing 13 books named after lyrics you’ll find in Smiths or Morrissey songs. Coincidentally, I happened to purchase one of those books this month, How Soon Is Never? by Marc Spitz (who also wrote this, which I wrote about reading in April). Spitz’ book is a play on the song title “How Soon Is Now?“; according to the A.V. Club writers “the story main character bonds with a love interest over mutual Smiths fandom, and it becomes their mission to reunite the un-reunitable band.” Here are some other interesting books on the list:

Girlfriend In A Coma by Douglas Coupland. I haven’t read this one (or any of the books on the list) but I’ve of course read Coupland’s famousGeneration X. This book is literally about a guy whose girlfriend is in a coma. Hopefully it has the wit of the Smiths song to take some of the bite out of the morbid subject matter.